Originally written September 6, 2017
The 1940s really birthed the comic book movie genre in an interesting way. People seem to think that these movies didn’t start existing until the early 2000s, but there were actually plenty of them as early as the 1940s. The main difference is that back then they came in the form of serials, not movies. As early as with The Adventures of Captain Marvel in 1941, DC pioneered comic book movies by bringing their characters to life in serial form. Hop Harrigan is yet another example of that. Most people today won’t recognize Hop Harrigan (I know I didn’t), but he was one of DC’s early comic book characters, and so this serial gave a 15 chapter adventure of his.
So basically, the plot of this is pretty basic. Hop Harrigan is a pilot who does flying jobs for people with the help of his partners: Tank, Gail, and Jackie. Hop and Tank are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory where he has an interesting new invention. However, a villain known as The Chief Pilot interferes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor. So, Hop and his friends must go after The Chief Pilot and his men to get Dr. Tabor back.
I’ll be honest, it’s very hard to watch a serial nowadays. I usually find that the first chapters and last chapters are the most interesting, and that everything in between is just filler. Some have kept me more engaged than others, such as the earlier mentioned Adventures of Captain Marvel, or the Captain America serial from 1944. However, it’s harder to be engaged in a serial like this for a character I’m unfamiliar with, and the serial itself didn’t really do anything to make me feel engaged by it. Hop Harrigan is also longer than the serials mentioned above, so this makes it more of a drag to get through, clocking in at just under 5 hours total.
However, I have to be honest with myself that personal interest factors into this a lot for me. Some people might be a fan of the serial format, but I’m just not. However, I don’t want to use that bias against Hop Harrigan. Even still, when I’m trying to be as attentive and objective and open-minded as possible about it, I still just find Hop Harrigan to be average in comparison to other serials of its time. Its plot is fine but doesn’t go anywhere totally interesting, and its cliffhangers just aren’t that great. The thing I have to give it most credit for are its characters and dialogue. If you’re paying enough attention, there’s a lot of good subtle humor found in it, and most of this comes in the back-and-forth between Hop and Tank. Dr. Tabor is also just funny to watch, coming off as the “mad scientist” type quite a few times. However, this stuff just barely saves Hop Harrigan from being a bad or medicore serial. It’s fine, but it can be skipped for sure.
3/5
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